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Missouri Appellate Court Overturns Punitive Damages Award In Opioid-Prescribing Medical Malpractice Case

September 26, 2024

Gregory Frost (“Frost”) claimed he became addicted to opioids due to the negligence of PCRMC Medical Group, Inc., d/b/a Phelps Health Medical Group (“Medical Group”). A jury found that Frost incurred compensatory damages in the amount of $200,000, that comparative fault for said damages was [...]

Manhattan Pain Management Doctor Sentenced To 210 Months In Prison For Oxycodone And Fentanyl Prescriptions

July 31, 2021

On July 8, 2021, Gordon Freedman, a doctor who practiced in New York, New York, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 121 months in prison for participating in a scheme to receive bribes and kickbacks in the form of fees for sham educational programs (“Speaker Programs”) from pharmaceutica[...]

Medical Director Of Maryland Pain Management Practice Pleads Guilty To Accepting Kickbacks

June 26, 2021

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland announced on June 10, 2021 that 65-year-old Howard Hoffberg, M.D. (“Hoffman”) pleaded guilty on June 9, 2021 to the federal charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statutes in connection with a scheme to accept payments from a phar[...]

Florida Pain Clinic Agrees To Pay $41M To Settle Unnecessary Urine Drug Testing Claims

June 5, 2020

The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida announced on April 15, 2020 that a Florida pain clinic and associated other defendants have agreed to pay a total of $41 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act for billing Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and other fede[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Holds Ordinary Negligence Jury Instruction Improper In Medical Malpractice Case

March 22, 2018

The Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on March 5, 2018 that a very strong case of medical malpractice does not become a case of ordinary negligence simply due to the egregiousness of the medical malpractice, and the Georgia Court of Appeals erre[...]

Two Maryland Physicians And Nine Co-Conspirators Indicted For Running Pill Mills In Maryland

September 7, 2017

The Maryland Attorney General announced on August 10, 2017 that two Maryland physicians and nine co-conspirators have been indicted for alleged unlawful distribution of controlled dangerous substances and running pill mills in Maryland. One of the Maryland physicians has been indicted on 21 counts o[...]

$17.6M Opioid Malpractice Verdict

July 26, 2017

A Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded the plaintiffs $17.6 million on June 27, 2017 after a seven-day trial in a medical malpractice case against the plaintiff’s former primary care physician who was alleged to have prescribed ever-increasing amounts of opioids for the plaintiff’s [...]

$14.9M Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Ambulatory Surgery Center For Patient’s Permanent Paralysis

April 26, 2017

On March 23, 2017, a Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant ambulatory surgery center for the permanent paralysis suffered by a patient who was given a drug during an epidural steroid injection procedure that the manufacturer of the drug specificity warned agai[...]

Florida Pain Management Clinic Agrees To Pay $7.4M Fine For Unnecessary Drug Screening

September 13, 2016

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced on August 31, 2016 that a Florida pain management clinic has agreed to pay $7.4 million to the government to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by performing medically unnecessary drug screening pro[...]

West Virginia Suspends License Of Pain Management Doctor

August 2, 2014

An osteopathic doctor who was the sole doctor at a pain management clinic in West Virginia has had his medical license suspended after a finding that the pain management clinic reused syringes on more than one patient and that the doctor failed to wear a surgical mask when he performed epidural inj[...]

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